2021 Day 171 Task – PhD Engineering Education is still Relevant

Of all the tasks that I have today, the sudden email from the deputy dean Academic of Engineering Faculty surprised me. It is because of the new consolidation program of the PhD program for Engineering Education specifically, and also other PhD and Master philosophy program that are offered in UTM. Luckily after a few phone calls, few whatsapp messages, I became clear of the higher purpose. Well, there’s no need to elaborate on this matter. Bottom line is that everything has been sorted out. Alhamdulillah

Other highlighted tasks of the day.

  • Verified PA pre-registration course.
  • Followed up on the IOP agreement.
  • Undergo Week 8 SCEE RAE training (up till activity 8.4)
  • Checked progress of my PSM and Masters student.
  • Study EI paper

2021 Day 163 Task – Dealing with All the Carry Marks for Refinery and Petrochemical Tech Course

I am a bit free from official tasks today. Hence, my mission is to complete various quizzez, tests, assignments that I gave to my Refinery and Petrochemical Technology course student. I need to get the carry marks ready by this week and present it to the students. InsyaAllah that would not be a problem. Then, I’m planning to prepare a test for the MKKK Masters Safety student next week.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Checked some of my PSM student progress.
  • Finalized and submitted my 3rd Medium article.
  • CEO #06 interview tonight – 9pm.
  • Academic Advisor – pre registration matter.

2021 Day 162 Task – Safety Paper Discussion with Co-Authors

This Saturday, I have not performed as many official task as usual. However, I am glad because I managed to complete editing and publishing my first Chemical Engineering Online video to YouTube. Check out the video below. Anyway, part of my main official task is to publish paper and at 5pm I had a discussion with Shams and Eliya on the improvements that are needed for the Noise Safety Paper Project. Alhamdulillah, I got in touch with Ashyraf as well, the student that worked on the noise project, so that I get additional information to work on the paper.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Completed Editing and publishing CEO Video #1 – This took me over 15 hours since 3 weeks plus ago.
  • Checked and approved my PA student EXCEL Programs. Up till 11pm, 4 more students have not submitted EXCEL.
  • Checked some of my PSM student progress.

2021 Day 160 Task – CEO@Faculty Briefing

Attended the program called Taklimat CEO @ Faculty. Very interesting program initiated by the government to bridge industry and academia. After the presentation, I then realized about the program, the initiatives that have been launched few years ago.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Checked and approved my PA students EXCEL report.
  • Share RCEE2021 ads to socmed.
  • Correction of Final Exam Questions.
  • Worked on carry marks for Refinery and Petrochemical Tech Class.
  • Evaluated Progress Report for my Post Grad students – AbdelRahim, Khu, Absi.
  • Submit Extended Abstract from my EER PhD student to RCEE2021.
  • Prepared slide presentation for SCEE RAE…

Example of my Weekly Comments to the Weekly Progress Report Submitted by my Students

Comments for Ziah Er

1) Do you BI and BM abstract

2) Correct your Table of Content Paging

3) Can you adjust Figure 1.1 to be actually cited and discussed under Section 1.1 Reserch Background?

4) 2.3 Catalyst Used in Ethanol Dry Reforming Section – You can also list those catalyst under steam reforming as well.. So that you can get more data. Better tabulate this in table.

5) Under Section 2.9 Ethanol Reforming Process – Its best to include a table of previous researchers who has been working on ethanol production from steam and dry reforming. This Table maybe can combine with the table I mentioned in Point 4 above.

6) For Figure 4.12 to 4.16, Effect of pressure, is your temperature maintained at 800C?

7) Originally I suggested to you do discuss effect of both temperature and pressure in a contour plot. Since you have done this, that’s fine. But you need to justify why you choose the 800C temperature.

8) After this you plot the contour plot ok.

9) Can start prepare presentation slide.

Comments for Zakwan:

1) Remind me to improve your Objective next week.

2) I suggest to include some pictures of bio oil in Section 2.3 or 2.4. And also picture of bio oil after upgrading for Section 2.6.

3) Good job on Table 2.2, but instead of putting SLASH, put a DASH. Also for Table 2.2, you lack data of the recent 5 years (2016-2021) – Where you only have 3 out of 18 references from the more recent 5 years, I suggest you add a bit more on this, atbout half- half… Meaning recent 5 years >50% than all of the ones in Table 2.2. ===== Same issue for Table 2.4. (Good job on the improvement of Table 2.2 and 2.4 compared to before this!!!)

4) Chapter 4 – You are left with the discussion and analysis of the results right… Make sure when you discuss all the Tables and Figures, cite the table and figure accordingly. It must be mentioned. It cannot be left independently alone. The discussion must be before the table or figure appear.

5) Later, you can study effect of pressure and temperature by analysis it in a contoour plot… But choose only the most important and dominant products.

Overall, Greaat Amazing job!!!

Comments for Izz:

1) Change all the starting part of your proposal to your own content, not template content.

2) Extend content of your Abstract.

3) Check issues in your Table of Content.

4) Your references formating are not consistant. At the same time your references are not too much. I did’nt realize this before. Please add more references (especially those of the recent 5 years (2016-2021) so you have more references in Chapter 1 and 2.).

5) Have you actually applied Endnote to your proposal?

6) Can you include picutres of oil sludge in early part of Chapter 2, so we can imagine how it looks like. You can include few photos so we can see the various kinds of sludges. Include references for it as well.

7) Table and Figure Captions throughout the proposal must be corrected. For example, Your existing Table 2.1.1 must be actually Table 2.1, Then yourexisting Table 2.1.2 must be Table 2.2. Your Figure 2.2.1, must be Figure 2.1, then the next figure after that must be Figure 2.2 … All of these are in chapter 2.

If it is in Chapter 3. First figure must be Figure 3.1, followed by Fig 3.2, Fig 3.3 and so on. Table also must be Table 3.1, 3.2 3.3 and so on.

If it is in Chapter 4, It should be labled as Figure 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and so on.. Table should be labeled as Table 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and so on… Hope you understand this.

7) All equations must be labelled as well. Check the format how to label it.

8) Chapter 4 – Your figure citation and Figure caption must be corrected for all.

9) Later, you can study effect of pressure and temperature by analysis it in a contoour plot… But choose only the most important and dominant products.

2021 Day 142 Task – Contract Grant Research Proposal – Finally Complete

I have been dragging to do this Contract Research Proposal due to my stubborn procrastination trait since end of last year. It is something that I need to do and I must do… Especially that I need the money for Article Processing Cost (APC) to submit to IJET which cost quite a fortune. This is a Contract Research for me to study about Identity of An Engineer… A topic, a research that is quite interesting for me to do.

Nowadays, most of the students I taught seems not interested to be an engineer and it is imperative to seek for the main reason behind this. Some of them just listen to their parents, follow their friends, love chemistry – hence they opted for chemical engineering – which is misleading, some not sure… just select and took the course but have no passion at all for chemical engineering – they just go with the flow and many more weird reasons.

But I still can say that there are still if I can estimate 50-60% of students who really have the desire to be practicing chemical engineer. InsyaAllah.. Hence this is going to be my main study soon… Pray for me…

Other highlighted task of the day:

  • Checking my PDP student team progress.
  • Meeting with my PDP student.
  • Received invitation to review manuscript from International Journal of Energy Research. Pre-reviewed it. To be continued tomorrow.
  • Conducted 2nd CEO interview with Practicing Engineer – Audrey Then.
  • Updated SEEM website with 2 new contents – RCEE2021 and AJEE.
  • Edited CEO-001 Video – Haseeb and CEO-002 Video -Audrey a bit.

2021 Day 139 Task – Plant Design Project Interim Presentation

We were all shocked from the national announcement made by MKN that UTM has been declared Enhanced Movement Control Order (EMCO) which will commence on the 21st of May 2021. In Malay this is called PKPD or Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan Diperketat. This simply means that the in and out movement to UTM will no longer be in the power of UTM but will be under the jurisdiction of MKN. It is expected that military and police will take guard UTM.

Nevertheless, live and work has to go on. Today, we are going to have the Plant Design Project Interim Presentation which will be from 2pm to 5pm.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Communicating with my PA students with regard of Covid in UTM
  • Preparing for the Chem Eng Online Interview questions and planning.
  • Coordination for RCEE2020 publication plan.

2021 Day 130 Task – CEE Coffee Table Book Project

The front page of CEE Coffee Table Book

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Checked My Master Student (Raihan) final corrected dissertation and signed it.
  • Filled up recommendation for for Raihan who is applying for PhD post at ITB.
  • Final submission of the End Report Project – Uploaded it to Radis.
  • Final checked and submission of the Renewable Energy Manuscript Proof.
  • New Activity (3 activities) Request in Radis System to apply for ICLCA2021 participation.
  • Went through the FutureLearn system for Week 2 SCEE RAE program. Managed to complete up to Activity 6 so far. This was the continuity from last week’s program.

2021 Day 126 Task – Studying IOP Proceeding Details

We are going to run RCEE2021 and one of the important task for it is to publish the papers presented in this conference with a Scopus Proceeding. This is normally among the main attraction for participants and presenters, which is to have their work published in a reputable journals or proceeding, often that have Scopus status. In conjunction of that, I have been in communication with IOP to see the possibilities to work together with them to publish our RCEE2021 papers in one of their famous proceedings.

Alhamdulillah, so far so good. We have been in communication and hopefully we can make a deal. Of course there are many aspects that require detail eyes such as the requirements and others. This is truly a new experience and exposure to me because all this while I have not thought about this. I was always the person sending papers to be presented and wait for my paper published in scopus journal or proceeding.

But now, with and under CEE, I am the number 1 person in charge of this. I am learning about it and I hope with the help of my senior fellows and also other committee members, we can make this effort a massive success. InsyaAllah.

2021 Day 120 Tasks – Meeting and Site Visit for Maahad Tahfiz Al-Fateh

I am one of the committee member to develop this new Maahad Tahfiz (Mataf) Al-Fateh that will be built and Kampung Melayu Kukup Laut, Pontian area. today, I managed to join a meeting with the committee and conduct a brief site visit at the location where the Mataf will be built on. It’s interesting and amazing that I am in this team for such a noble quest. I am doing what I can to help make this happen. InsyaAllah.

As mentioned in my previous post, this is also one of the social service to the community that I am involved in. Hopefully it will be a very meaningful and significant contribution. Insya Allah.

Other highlighted tasks:

  • Finally submitted my RENE 2nd correction. Alhamduillah.
  • Work on CB Project – Adwords
  • Checked on PSM student research works.
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